The Night Mail and Other Poems

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 12:57 PM

On this home by horror haunted- tell me truly, I implore -

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 12:57 PM

Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!"

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 12:59 PM

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:00 PM

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil!

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:00 PM

By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:01 PM

Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:02 PM

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore -

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:03 PM

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."...

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:04 PM

"Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend," I shrieked, upstarting -

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:04 PM

"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:05 PM

Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:05 PM

Leave my loneliness unbroken!- quit the bust above my door!

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:06 PM

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:06 PM

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 01:07 PM

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

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